Crackpots

NPR reports: After an abrupt recall and a two-month delay – along with the threat of possible legal action – the election denial book 2,000 Mules has reached bookstores, though with a few significant changes. Most notably, a passage in the recalled version of the book that accused specific, named nonprofit organizations of involvement in illegal “ballot trafficking” has been …

Variety reports: Kanye West is no longer a client at CAA, Variety has confirmed. In addition, a completed documentary about West will be shelved in light of his recent antisemitic comments, MRC studio executives Modi Wiczyk, Asif Satchu and Scott Tenley announced in a memo on Monday. They wrote, “Kanye is a producer and sampler of music. Last week he …

“It’s sad that as we see Christianity receding, the pews getting more and more empty as the years go by, the society gets anti-Christian in one aspect and then it starts to attack the church, you know, with hatred and vitriol, but also in the same way we see paganism making a return. “Both, you know, on the fringes of …

“Encourage everyone you know to vote the day of the election, not before. Very important, everybody. The media’s all over attacking me for telling you all that. If you get a mail-in vote or whatever, mail-in ballot, just bring it with you to make sure if they tell you, ‘oh, you already voted,’ say, no I didn’t and you go …

Women’s Wear Daily reports: Balenciaga has severed its ties with Ye. Parent company Kering said the French fashion house would no longer be working on projects with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who has made increasingly controversial public comments in recent weeks, including anti-Semitic threats. “Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related …

“Just like cancer, stopping it is not a gentle or a painless process. The farther along the cancer is, the more aggressive you have to be in fighting it. “Culturally, we are approaching, if we haven’t already reached, a terminal state, which means we have to be all the more aggressive, which calls for two things. “First, obviously involving children …

“I am a firm and solid and immovable believer in God. And I believe that God wins. I believe that good is greater than evil. And I believe that the fallen angel – otherwise known as Satan – doesn’t get to prevail in this world. “So, if you follow the Bible, or if you follow the Koran, or you follow …

“Prophetess” Kat Kerr has a direct quote from God: Even the fake news will have to tell the truth. For they will say these very words: ‘We don’t want to say this. We tried to prove it wasn’t true. That it was a lie. But Trump won the 2020 election!’ He IS the president of the United States of America …

NPR reports: The family of George Floyd announced Tuesday that they will file a $250 million lawsuit against Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, following comments he made about Floyd’s death on the podcast Drink Champs. Ye — who was a guest on last weekend’s episode of the podcast hosted by rapper N.O.R.E and DJ EFN — put …

The Daily Beast reports: In her first weekend on the campaign trail in a new alliance with New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate and on-again-off-again election denier Don Bolduc, Tulsi Gabbard compared President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler. Speaking at a Bolduc town hall event in a town outside of Manchester on Sunday, the former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential …

The New York Daily News reports: Kanye West continues to create outrage. The outspoken rapper contended in a new interview that George Floyd died of the drug fentanyl, and not from the actions of the Minnesota police officer who was convicted of his murder. “They hit him with the fentanyl. If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: On the eve of Thursday’s hearing at which a congressional committee revealed even more damning evidence of former President Donald Trump’s central role in the Capitol insurrection and the broader plot to keep him in power after losing the 2020 election, former Rep. Michele Bachmann told religious-right activists that the insurrection was planned …

“Bill Gates has decided that all of us have to eat man-made meat. I want the real thing. I want it to come from the real source. It’s not about the way it tastes. “I mean congratulations for making something that tastes a little bit like the original. I want to eat something that’s real. “That’s the real thing that …

“Every single one of these board members, we called them out for exactly who they are. They’re groomers. In a normal world, they would be criminalized. They would be put in jail. “But we’re not living in a normal world. But guess what, Jesse? A couple of those board members are up for reelection in just a few months and …

Media Matters has the transcript: JOE ROGAN (HOST): How did anybody allow it to get this far? Who? Are there no adults in the room? I mean, that’s a big expression, right? TULSI GABBARD (FORMER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE): It is. ROGAN: That was the thing that everyone said we were going to love about the Biden administration. GABBARD: Right. ROGAN: The …

Media Matters has the transcript: Either the Bible’s right or the left is right. They can’t both be right. That’s why you can’t be a serious Jew or Christian and be a leftist. You can be a liberal, you can be a conservative, but you can’t be a leftist. Just on this issue alone. You just would have to say …

Fox News reports: Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she left the Democratic Party on Tuesday, denouncing the organization as an “elitist cabal.” She went on to call on other moderate Democrats to follow in her footsteps. Gabbard, who retired from the House of Representatives in 2021, attacked the institution in a nearly 30-minute video posted to her YouTube …

“If you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was antisemitic. You did not think that he wrote this tweet because he hates or wants to genocide Jewish people. “This does not represent the beginning of a Holocaust. That’s if you’re an honest person, you’ll admit that, right? If you’re an honest person, when you read this …

The Daily Beast reports: Kanye West’s tumultuous week began with backlash over a “White Lives Matter” shirt and culminated with Instagram restricting his account after he made anti-Semitic posts. West posted a screenshot of his text conversation with Sean “Diddy” Combs, where he insinuated Combs was being controlled by Jewish people. The American Jewish Committee, an anti-hate group, called out …

Vox reports: As the weather starts to turn cold and as officials push for more people to get their new booster shot before an expected winter coronavirus surge, public health leaders are battling skepticism and apathy toward the vaccines. Worse, experts fear the politicized backlash to the Covid-19 vaccines is already fostering skepticism about routine vaccinations generally, from childhood immunizations …